Hawaii: Private Settlement

Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller has
dipped into his own capacious pocket to supplement the pay of a dozen
state officials, although the Arkansas attorney general told him it was
unconstitutional. Newark's Mayor Kenneth Gibson has persuaded local
businessmen to add $2,500 a year to the city business administrator's
$35,000 salary in order to attract a top outside professional to the
job. Now the mayor of Honolulu, Frank Fasi, has offered $40,000 from
his campaign war chest to help fend off a strike of Teamster drivers
that would have halted two privately owned Oahu bus lines. The union
accepted Fasi's...